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Collections

Betsy King
'Chicago City Bolo'1988

Not on view
Bolo tie with a faceted resin slide encasing a printed early twentieth-century cityscape, suspended from a twisted dark metal braided cord with cylindrical metal tips

Betsy King, 'Chicago City Bolo', 1988, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Betsy King
United States, born 1953
Title
'Chicago City Bolo'
Date Made
1988
Medium
Silver, copper, brass, plastics, postcard, synthetic spinel
Dimensions
Cord length: 36 1/2 in. (92.71 cm) Slide: 6 1/4 × 2 13/16 × 7/8 in. (15.88 × 7.14 × 2.22 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman
Accession Number
M.2015.252.25
Classification
Jewelry and Adornments
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Mills, Rosie Chambers and Bobbye Tigerman. Beyond Bling: Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.
Copyright
© Betsy King